1986 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1986 poetry literature Events March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.G.B for distributing his samizdat poetry and briefly confined in a psychiatric hospital before being freed after protests by other poets such as Bella Akhmadulinahttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/books/20prigov.html?ex=1342584000&en=2abefdd4279f2682&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The New York Times Dmitri Prigov, 66, Poet Who Challenged Soviet Authority, Dies 2007-07-20 New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago English poet Wendy Cope's Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis is a best-seller Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada Don Domanski, Hammerstroke Canada Louis Dudek, Zembla's Rocks. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1986."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm 2011-05-23 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Archibald Lampman, The Story of an Affinity, D.M.R. Bentley ed. (London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press). 978-0-921243-00-7 Irving Layton, Dance With Desire: Love Poems. Toronto:McClelland & Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Dennis Lee, editor, The New Canadian Poets (anthology)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164 Dorothy Livesay, The Self-Completing Tree: Selected Poems. Victoria: Porcepic."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Man with Three Violins."Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. HMS Press (Toronto) 0-919957-83-8 Anne Marriott, Letters from Some Island: New Poems, Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press."Anne Marriott (1913-1997)", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. Michael Ondaatje: All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadian published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland PatternWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie Raymond Souster, It Takes All Kinds. Ottawa: Oberon Press,"Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Wilfred Watson, Collected Poems (introduction by Thomas Peacocke)Shirley Neuman, "Watson, Wilfred https://web.archive.org/web/20100202212727/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008487 2010-02-02 ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 2284. India, in English Jayanta Mahapatra, Dispossessed Nests ( Poetry in English ), Jaipur: Nirala PublicationsPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Suniti Namjoshi, Flesh and Paper, (with Gillian Hanscombe), Jezebel Tapes and Books, Devon, 1-870240-00-6 and Ragweed, 0-920304-64-8Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" https://web.archive.org/web/20100202031754/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9964&x=1 2010-02-02 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 V. K. Gokak, editor, The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, New Delhi: Sahitya Academy; anthologyR. Saraswathi, "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri", p 64, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Niranjan Mohanty, editor, The Golden Voices: Poets from Orissa Writing in English, Berhampur University: Poetry Publications; anthologyNiranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p 17, Footnote 7, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Ireland Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Dermot Bolger, Internal Exiles Seamus Heaney, Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Irish native at this time living in the United States Alan Moore (poet) Opia, Anvil Press Poetry, 0-85646-161-X, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems 1968–1983, including "Lunch with Pancho Villa", "Cuba", "Anseo", "Gathering Mushrooms", "The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery PressWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705030935/http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/ENchuilleanain/enchuill.html 2008-07-05 at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008 Frank Ormsby, A Northern Spring, including "Home", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press James Simmons, Poems 1956–1986, including "One of the Boys", "West Strand Visions" and "From the Irish", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): Hotspur: a ballad, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United StatesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Allen Curnow, The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983–1985Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Seasons and CreaturesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Cilla McQueen, Wild SweetsCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024955/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm March 6, 2006 Les Murray, editor, Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry, Melbourne, Collins Dove (new edition, 1991) https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Norman Simms, Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the New Literature from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, scholarshipPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837 United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Ask the Bloody HorseCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Charles Causley, Early in the Morning Jack Clemo, A Different Drummer Tony Connor, Spirits of Place Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Kevin Crossley-Holland, Waterslain Carol Ann Duffy, Thrown Voices Helen Dunmore, The Sea Skater Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson Roy Fuller, Outside the Canon Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Adrian Henri, Collected Poems Ted Hughes, Flowers and Insects George MacBeth, The Cleaver Garden Edwin Morgan, From the Video Box Grace Nichols, Whole of a Morning Sky Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Sky Ray Lolly Peter Reading, Stet E. J. Scovell, Listening to Collared Doves Penelope Shuttle, The Lion From Rio Jon Silkin, The Ship's Pasture John Stallworthy, The Anzac Sonata R.S. Thomas, Experimenting with an Amen Abdullah al-Udhari, editor and translator, Modern Poetry of the Arab World, Penguin, anthology United States A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition Ralph Angel, Anxious Latitudes Gwendolyn Brooks, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States Raymond Carver, Ultramarine Henri Cole, The Marble Queen Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Over All the Obscene Boundaries Alice Fulton, Palladium Marilyn Hacker, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States John Hollander, In Time and Place Paul Hoover, Nervous Songs, (L'Epervier Press) Jane Kenyon, The Boat of Quiet Hours Li-Young Lee, Rose Mary Oliver, Dream Work Michael Ondaatje: All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadian published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie Carl Rakosi, Collected Poems published by the National Poetry Foundation Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Rosmarie Waldrop, Streets Enough to Welcome Snow (Station Hill) Anthologies in the United States Philip Dacey and David Jauss, editors of the New Formalist anthology, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms Ron Silliman, editor, In the American Tree, anthology of Language poets Other in English Paula Burnett, Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, anthology"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, St. Lucia native living in the United States Works published in other languages Danish Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Giv dagen dit lys ("Give the Day Your Light")"Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Niels Frank, Digte i kim, DenmarkAndersen, Jørn Erslev, translated by: David McDuff, "Author Profile: Niels Frank", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Christian Graugaard, Kan jeg købe dine øjnes blå dans ("Can I Buy Your Eyes Blue Dance") this poet's web page at the Dansk Literaturpriser website, retrieved January 27, 2009 French language Kama Sywor Kamanda, Chants de brumes, Congo native writing in French Abdellatif Laabi, L'Écorché vif. L'Harmattan, Paris, Moroccan author writing in and published in France Jean Royer, Le chemin brûlé, Montréal: l'Hexagone; CanadaWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L'Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Marie Uguay, Poèmes (contains Signe et rumeur, L'Outre-vie, and Autoportraits) French-Canada (posthumously published) India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Nirendranath Chakravarti, Jabotiyo Bhalobashabashi, Kolkata: Proma Prokashoni; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Rajendra Bhandari, Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-languageWeb page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" https://web.archive.org/web/20130530191831/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 2013-05-30 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Jatayu, Mumbai and Ahmedabad: R R Sheth & Co.; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Sitanshu Yashaschandra" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131430/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11819 2011-09-19 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Namdeo Dhasal, Gandu Bagicha Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Namdeo Dhasal" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213641/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Bhavishyathu Chitrapatam or Bhavishyattu Chitrapatam ("Portrait of the Future"), Vijayawada: Vijayakrishna Printers; Telugu-languageWeb page titled "Varavara Rao" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214322/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15346 2012-02-14 at the "Poetry International" website; and Gopal, Venu, "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal (December 15, 2005)", December 15, 2005, Venu Gopal website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Naram garam hawain (The soft Warm Air) - published posthumously by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi. Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Atlantyda i inne wiersze z lat 1981-85 ("Atlantis and Other Poems"), London: PulsWeb page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Juliusz Erazm Bolek, NagoWeb page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Ernest Bryll, Adwent ("Advent"), LondonWeb pages titled "Bryll Ernest" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20111005232826/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,910.php 2011-10-05 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062713/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,316.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Ewa Lipska, Utwory wybrane ("Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Bronisław Maj: Album rodzinny ("Family Album"); Cracow: Oficyna LiterackaWeb pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20110911011122/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,113.php 2011-09-11 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062910/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,13.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010 Zaglada świętego miasta ("Destruction of the Holy City"); London: Puls Zmęczenie ("Fatigue"); Cracow: Znak Piotr Sommer, Czynnik lirycznyWeb page titled "Piotr Sommer" https://web.archive.org/web/20101011221045/http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 October 11, 2010 , "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Jan Twardowski, Nie przyszedłem pana nawracać. Wiersze z lat 1937- 1985 ("I Did Not Come to Convert You: Poems From the Years 1937-1985"), Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Archidiecezji WarszawskiejWeb page titled "Jan Twardowski" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php 2011-07-18 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Other languages Mario Benedetti, Preguntas al azar ("Random Questions"), UruguayWeb page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"(in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30. Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Elke Erb, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1986 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1986"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthologyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010 Matilde Camus, Sin teclado de fiebre ("Without a fever keyboard"), Spain Osman Durrani, editor, German Poetry of the Romantic Era (with poetry in German), anthology, Leamington Spa, England: Oswald, Wolf and Berg (publisher)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474;First name of editor and publishing information from Murray, Christopher John, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Taylor & Francis, 2004, p 885 Jon Fosse, Engel med vatn i augene, Norway Nizar Qabbani, Poems Inciting Anger, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Maria Luisa Spaziani, La stella del libero arbitrio, Italy Wisława Szymborska: Ludzie na moście ("People on the Bridge"), Poland Andrei Voznesensky, The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial, prose and poetry primarily about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens. Addressing a topic long suppressed by the Soviet government, the work made clear that most of the victims were Jews, and it implied this was why Soviet authorities tolerated the grave robbing. Russian-language work published in the Soviet Union.Anderson, Raymond H., "Andrei Voznesensky, Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, June 2, 2010, The New York Times, retrieved June 7, 2010 Wang Xiaoni, Wode shixuan ("My Selected Poems"), ChinaWeb page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" https://web.archive.org/web/20110725132120/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=974 2011-07-25 at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Rhyll McMaster, Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs and John A. Scott, St. Clair Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray Selected Poems 1963-1983 Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams - A Crowd of Voices Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar Archibald Lampman Award: Colin Morton, This Won't Last Forever 1986 Governor General's Awards: Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (English); Cécile Cloutier, L'écouté (French) Pat Lowther Award: Erín Moure, Domestic Fuel Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel Prix Émile-Nelligan: Carole David, Terroristes d'amour and France Mongeau, Lumières United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton, Selima Hill Eric Gregory Award: Mick North, Lachlan Mackinnon, Oliver Reynolds, Stephen Romer Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman MacCaig United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, Kingdoms of the Ordinary AML Award for poetry to Dennis Marden Clark for "Sunwatch" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Koethe, "Mistral" Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Robert Penn Warren Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Adrienne Rich Whiting Awards: John Ash, Hayden Carruth, Frank Stewart, Ruth Stone Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Irving Feldman and Howard Moss Births September 22 – Elena Zhambalova (died 2025), Russian poet November – Raymond Antrobus, English poet and educator Caroline Bird, English poet Fateme Ekhtesari, Persian poet and midwife Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – Christopher Isherwood (born 1904), English-born American novelist and poet January 9 – W. S. Graham (born 1918), Scottish poet January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born 1925), American Beat poet, of emphysema March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born 1913), Canadian poet and novelist March 8 – Kersti Merilaas, at 72 (born 1913), Estonian poet, translator and author of children's fiction March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (born 1916), American poet, translator and etymologist, of a heart attack April 15 – Jean Genet, at 75 (born 1910), French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and political activist April 21 – Salah Jahin, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born 1930), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist May 25 – Carlo Betocchi, at 87 (born 1899), Italian poet June 24 – Rex Warner (born 1905), English classicist, author, poet and translator July 13 – Brion Gysin, at 70 (born 1916), English painter, writer, sound poet and performance artist August 19 – Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, at 73 (born 1913), Urdu poet, essayist, critic, biographer August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (born 1923), Canadian poet, writer and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born 1893), American author of children's fiction and poetry November 10 – Laurence Collinson (born 1925), AustralianMS 6327/Papers of Laurence Collinson National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms6327 2007-05-15 playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher, in London December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born 1914), English poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist Also: Atul Chandra Hazarika (born 1903), Indian, writing in Assamese; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society Audrey Longbottom (born c. 1922), Australian See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References 30em Category:20th-century poetry *